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Oh I hope that with some good moderation it could get much better than that... "People are starving in Somalia" is as useful as "people around the world are su

by pera 9y ago

Oh I hope that with some good moderation it could get much better than that... "People are starving in Somalia" is as useful as "people around the world are suffering", or (like in many software projects): "this program is too slow". But if you can narrow the scope, like, "There is a neighborhood in Baidoa, Somalia, that have no access to fresh water since the beginning of June because a pump is broken" then we could think of possible ways to solve that. And if you also include information about organizations in that area that could help, then we are much closer to a real solution.

Waterluvian 9y ago
Kiva is kind of like that! Edit: not Python
- pera 9y ago
  What is Kivy? the only reference I found is about some python framework
- kzahel 9y ago
  I think you mean Kiva?
  - Waterluvian 9y ago
    Yes my bad.
tim333 9y ago
"People are starving in Somalia" is actually relatively fixable. "Somalia was one of four regions singled out by the UN secretary-general in February for a £3.6 billion aid appeal"[0]. Just cut £3.6bn from the world's trillion dollar military budgets. Maybe a general principle could be made that no money is to go for bombs until people have food. [0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/somalia-dead-drought-starve-prime-minister-hassan-khaire-united-nations-famine-mogadishu-country-a7611471.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/somalia-dead-...